lake breeze

American  

noun

1. a thermally produced wind blowing during the day from the surface of a large lake to the shore, caused by the difference in the rates of heating of the surfaces of the lake and of the land.

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lake breeze

A strong lake breeze can create a 20-degree differential between the waterfront and neighborhoods 10 miles inland.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 16, 2020

Fittingly, the combination of the lake breeze and summer heat parallels the bent, twisted nature of his atmospheric notes.

From Chicago Tribune ● Jul. 8, 2011

Couples lounged inertly in the lilac-scented shade of the parks along Boulevard Magheru, sipped raspberry soda out of communal glasses, or took in the desultory lake breeze at the Pescarus Restaurant.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anon he would be telling you of a cold he acquired in a Chicago lake breeze and how old Escamila cured it in Buenos Ayres with a hot infusion of the chuchula weed.

From The Four Million by O. Henry

Here the lake breeze is invariable, but a hundred miles south, days and nights pass with alternate blazing heat and close, lifeless darkness, the latter even more trying than the former.

From The Old Stone House by Constance Fenimore Woolson

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